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by falserum 3y ago
> The US helped to overthrow the Ukraine Really? Ukraine was on the track to go direction “europe”, When president suddenly did sudden 180 degree turn, back to russian empire/soviet union/mongol hoards. Young people saw that th
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by falserum 3y ago
You are correct, I agree. Lowering barrier affects contribution positively. But I would argue, that it affects quantity and quality in significantly different ways. Meaning that quantity is increased vastly more of the two. Average quality
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by falserum 3y ago
devilish advocate here. One such article - small problem. But what if such low-view, and now outdated/vandalized articles start approaching 50% of wikipedia content? That might reflect badly on credibility of whole wiki. It is nontrivi
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by falserum 3y ago
All contributions in the world follow some kind of process, even if informal. (E.g. you politely wait in line to drop off your generous donation)
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by falserum 3y ago
The benefit is the 100% guarantee that queried child has a parent. If code has many maintainers, pinky promises to keep referential integrity are bound to be broken eventually. Humans like shortcuts.
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by falserum 3y ago
Sources? (Edit: Let’s add /s just in case)
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by falserum 3y ago
Cloud providers would benefit from actively fighting such abstractions.
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by falserum 3y ago
Their preferred dimensions of diversity of course.
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by falserum 3y ago
I think it’s just description of “absence of competition”. Reasons for lack of it, are orthogonal to the term. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly > Are they crippling their competitors or gimping their market
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by falserum 3y ago
Anybody else worried that html and css specs are being extended so much that independent implementations become impossible?
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by falserum 3y ago
> I am proud that ASML has been able to grow a technologist like Christophe into the CEO position So he is/was a techy. Nice.
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by falserum 3y ago
Please elaborate.
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by falserum 3y ago
37 thousand priests in us. (675t-37t) / 165000t = 0.386% (1 out of 259)
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by falserum 3y ago
Anything can be weaponised with horrifying outcomes. (Your kitchen knife, radio, rats, automatic rifles, democracy) The thing to look at: actual track record (positives vs negatives). How many tragic events happened due to Swedish sympathy
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by falserum 3y ago
Wonderful game. Thanks!
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by falserum 3y ago
Chess
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by falserum 3y ago
Article feels like a personal attack towards D and K.
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by falserum 3y ago
All stereotypes grow from a kernel of some truth. Lets calculate. - 80-90% of child abusers are male. (Lets use 90% further on). - Us population is 330 million. (So half will be 165m male). - It has 750 thousand registered sex offenders Cal
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by falserum 3y ago
> here to stay I'm afraid. Nothing to be afraid. Just accept people as they are. (Even if you do not want to join them)
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by falserum 3y ago
Any chance that 1Cal == 1kCal have influenced the calculation?
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by falserum 3y ago
Sir, thank you!
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by falserum 3y ago
> Russian rockets as well just few years back because it was cheaper Your link says that US had no homegrown option, when it used russian rockets. The only part that matches “because cheaper”, was atlas rockets using soviet engines, but
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by falserum 3y ago
I bet that most code uses [ or [[, if I am right, then reasoning is: “it is the normal usage”. (Making life easier for others and your self)
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by falserum 3y ago
I’ve read somewhere that to see flag sized objects we would need telescope size of entire earth. Not true?
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by falserum 3y ago
Looked fancy, but trying to use it caused me to close the window quickly. Any chance there is dumber ui for same database?
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by falserum 3y ago
What would be worthwhile optimisation to do?
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by falserum 3y ago
Can client/browser choose if to use compression? If so, this is a problem for the website
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by falserum 3y ago
Loyalty? I could believe closest colleagues, that were in constant contact. But 500… is a bit too much to hold any warmy feelly bonds. Greed is simpler explanation.
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by falserum 3y ago
Problem is not technological. Words are just a bit ambiguous. “Estimate for X is 5 hours”. Does this estimate only source code change, or full release process with installation to production? Speech converted to text contains same ambiguiti
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by falserum 3y ago
From the article, reasons why chloramines get created: > perspiration, oils and urine that enter pools from swimmers’ bodies. I choose to be an optimist and will believe that list starts with most common source and ends with the least c

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